In the letter, titled #BlackLivesMatter, Kim says she is "apalled," "heartbroken," and expresses personal fears for her own family.

"I want my children to grow up knowing that their lives matter," she writes, "I do not ever want to have to teach my son to be scared of the police, or tell him that he has to watch his back because the people we are told to trust—the people who 'protect and serve'—may not be protecting and serving him because of the color of his skin."

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She also urges against using violence. "We must peacefully use the power of our voices and the strength our numbers to demand changes in the judicial system so that brutality doesn't ever go unpunished," she writes. At the end of her letter she includes links to contact legislators, #BlackLivesMatter, and donate to the families of Sterling and Castile.